Pantera, Monarchia del nostro Signor Iesu Christo, Venice, 1545, contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco for Marcantonio Totila
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PANTERA, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Monarchia del nostro signor Iesu Christo, di messer Gioan'Antonio Panthera parentino al Christianissimo re Francesco. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1545
One of several bindings made for Marcantonio Totila in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana (for more details of Totila, see part I, 11 October 2023, lot 60). His bindings were made by different workshops; this binding is attributed to the Pflug and Ebeleben binder. A similar binding made for Totila, though without the painted interlacing, is illustrated in A. Hobson and L. Quaquarelli, Legature bolognesi del Rinascimento, plate 43. Hobson also made a census of bindings made for Totila; the present volume was not known to him and has been added as number 10 in the census (A. Hobson, "Bookbinding in Bologna", Schede umanistiche 1 (1998), pp. 147-176).
8vo (162 x 102 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: ☩8 2☩8 3☩4 A-Z8 2A-S8 2T4: 360 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, some manuscript annotations. (Marginal dampstaining, repaired tear to title-page, ink stains to G6v, G7, and R3-4, wax stains to R5-6, tears to foot of O8, Aa5, and edge of R5, slight worming to final leaves.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco gilt (166 x 114 mm), by the Pflug and Ebeleben binder for Marcantonio Totila, interlaced strapwork painted white, red, green, and white again with flowers, buds, and leaves, upper cover lettered MONAR / CHIA / DI CHRI / STO, lower cover MARCO / ANTONIO / TOTI / LA, spine with gilt rope tool stamped back to back, some deckle edges, edges gilt and gauffered, stubs from four pairs of ties. (Ends of spine and corners renewed, later pastedowns.)
provenance: Marcantonio Totila (fl. 1527-1550), name on binding — Giovanna Rosanini, inscription on title-page, and inscription at end stating that the book was lent to Pompeo Clemente Badini, priest of Aspra, by Angela Giovanna Rosanini in 1704 — Pietro Paolo Pernini, inscription on title-page dated 1780 — [Gabriel Hanotaux, according to the sale catalogue of] — William Tudor Wilkinson (1879-1969), sale, Étienne Ader & Lucien Lefèvre with Claude Guérin, Paris, 16-17 December 1964, lot 313. acquisition: Purchased in 2016 from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris. references: USTC 762208
